Hi, A.V. Club readers—Josh from Paste Media here. It’s been several weeks since we acquired The A.V. Club from G/O, and we’ve been busy working to migrate the site off of Kinja and onto our own platform. There are a lot of changes in the works—scrubbing any AI-generated content; hiring a new editor-in-chief; bringing back some familiar writers and adding some new ones we hope you’ll like; developing a subscriber program for any of you who might want to help support our work and would wear some A.V. Club swag; launching some A.V. Club events (an eventual return of A.V. Fest?) and maybe even a podcast or two.
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But the thing I’m most excited about and need your help with is to bring back A.V. Undercover. It’s been 14 years since Ted Leo and the Pharmacists kicked off the beloved video series by covering Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World.” And it’s been almost seven years since the last entry—Filthy Friends covering “How Will I Know” by Whitney Houston—to finish season 8. We’re working to get all of those episodes back on the site, but in the meantime, we’re ready to kick off season 9. If you’ve been reading The A.V. Club for a long time, you know the drill. Tell us what song you want covered in a new comment (not a thread), upvote others’ suggestions you like, and downvote the ones you don’t. We’ll see what got the most support and add a few of our own picks to determine the 20 songs for season 9.
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The artists we invite into our roving studio can then choose what song they want to cover before it gets crossed off the list. We’ve already got the first day of recording scheduled for June 26 in New York and the first musical guest booked (a former Undercover favorite), but we’ll keep that as a surprise. And if anyone knows where the old neon A.V. Undercover sign is, we’d love to use it. Let the voting begin!